Decoupling of DeGiorgi-type systems via multi-marginal optimal transport

DOI10.1080/03605302.2013.849730MaRDI QIDQ2875586zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nassif Ghoussoub, Brendan Pass

Publication date 8 August 2014

Published in Communications in Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.3280

zbMATH Keywords

optimal transportsubmodularitycompatibilityrearrangement inequalitiesDeGiorgi conjectureelliptic systems of PDEsH-monotonicitymulti-marginal Monge-Kantorovich problemorientable system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Entire solutions to PDEs (35B08) Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Systems of functional equations and inequalities (39B72)

Abstract: We exhibit a surprising relationship between elliptic gradient systems of PDEs, multi-marginal Monge-Kantorovich optimal transport problem, and multivariable Hardy-Littlewood inequalities. We show that the notion of an orientable elliptic system, conjectured in [6] to imply that (in low dimensions) solutions with certain monotonicity properties are essentially 1-dimensional, is equivalent to the definition of a compatible cost function, known to imply uniqueness and structural results for optimal measures to certain Monge-Kantorovich problems [11]. Orientable nonlinearities and compatible cost functions turned out to be also related to submodular functions, which appear in rearrangement inequalities of Hardy-Littlewood type. We use this equivalence to establish a decoupling result for certain solutions to elliptic PDEs and show that under the orientability condition, the decoupling has additional properties, due to the connection to optimal transport.

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